Afrologist 🌍

African history, sourced | Every claim carries its evidence and its confidence | Where historians disagree, we say so | Where the record is thin, we say why. 🌍

[Afrologist 🌍 @Afrologist]

Which commits us to something uncomfortable.

Publishing confidence levels. Naming the sources we could not reach. Correcting ourselves in public, where it can be seen.

An archive that never posts a correction isn't careful. It just isn't checking.

[Afrologist 🌍 @Afrologist]

Afrology: the study of Africa as one continuous history, reconstructed from evidence.

Not our word. Molefi Kete Asante coined it in 1980.

What we're adding isn't the name. It's the method.

[Afrologist 🌍 @Afrologist]

In practice:

Evidence before ideology.
Chronology before interpretation.
Context before judgement.
Complexity before simplification.
The continent before the nation-state.
Revision when the evidence changes.